KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 141:8–9
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Psalms 141:8
8But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
8†But mine eyes are vnto thee, O God the LORD: in thee is my trust, leaue not my soule destitute.
- Heb. make not my soule bare.
Psalms 141:9
9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
9Keepe mee from the snare which they haue laide for me, and the grinnes of the workers of iniquitie.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 141:8
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Something committed to a person’s care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To depart from, abandon, or leave behind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Lacking what is needed; deprived, forsaken, or without help.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 141:9
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Devices or stratagems used to catch or entangle; figuratively, causes of danger, sin, or ruin.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Placed, set down, imposed, or arranged.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Snare, trap.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
Persons who work, labor, or perform deeds.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Wickedness, unrighteousness, injustice, or a particular sin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 8
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Open the full verse study1UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
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Open the full verse study12O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
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Open the full verse study17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
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Open the full verse study17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
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Open the full verse study15Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
16Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
17The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
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Open the full verse study18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
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Open the full verse study12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
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Open the full verse study3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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Open the full verse study1IN the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study20And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
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Open the full verse study110The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
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Open the full verse study5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
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Open the full verse study14The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
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Open the full verse study12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
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Open the full verse study3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
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Open the full verse study22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
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